Geoffrey Mason, a lawyer and amateur jockey, finds himself embroiled in a terrible story due to the fact that he failed to acquit in court a certain Julian Trent, a degenerate and psychopath, whose guilt no one seemed to doubt. However, the sentence is revised, Trent is released, and this turns Jeffrey's life into a nightmare. Moreover, the motive of the criminal’s actions is not only revenge for the past - for some reason he needs to ensure that Mason loses the case of Steve Mitchell, a professional jockey accused of murdering his competitor. Follow the lead and thereby save yourself from problems? But the innocent will go to prison... Take a risk? What if this race fails to reach the finish line, and the barrier turns out to be insurmountable? The race has begun, there is no more time to think...For the first time in Russian!

trans. from English N.V. Rein